NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Syllabus
Department of English

Detailed Syllabus of Third Year

Four-Year B.A. (Honours) Course

Effective from the Session : 2009–2010

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 National University
Subject: English
Third Year

Course Code Course Title Marks Credits

1172 16th & 17th Century Drama 100 4
1173 16th & 17th Century Poetry 100 4
1174 17th and 18th Century Non-Fictional Prose 100 4
1175 Restoration and Eighteenth Century Fiction 100 4
1176 Restoration and Eighteenth Century Poetry and Drama 100 4
1177 Victorian Poetry 100 4
1178 Introduction to Linguistics 100 4
1179 Professional English 100 4
1180 Approaches and Methods of Language Teaching 100 4
Total = 900 36

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 Course Code 1172 Marks: 100 Credits: 4 Class Hours: 60
Course Title: 16th & 17th Century Drama

C. Marlowe ---The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus

W.Shakespeare —Macbeth, As You Like It
Ben Jonson —Volpone
John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi

Course Code 1173 Marks: 100 Credits: 4 Class Hours: 60

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Course Title: 16 & 17 Century Poetry
Edmund Spencer—The Faerie Queen Bk 1 Canto 1
John Donne—The Sun Rising, A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, Twicknam Garden, The
Canonization, Go and Catch a Falling Star, Batter My Heart, Death Be Not Proud
Andrew Marvell—To His Coy Mistress, The Definition of Love,
George Herbert—Easter Wings, The Collar
John Milton—Paradise Lost Bk 1

Course Code 1174 Marks: 100 Credits: 4 Class Hours: 60

Course Title: 17th and 18th Century Non-Fictional Prose
F.Bacon---Of Love, Of Marriage and Single Life, Of Truth, Of Plantation
John Milton---Areopagitica
Addison and Steele---Selections from The Spectators (as in The Norton Anthology of English
Literature)
Samuel Johnson – Life of Cowley
Edmund Burke--- Speech on East India Bill

Course Code 1175 Marks: 100 Credits: 4 Class Hours: 60

Course Title: Restoration and Eighteenth Century Fiction

Aphra Ben--Oroonoko
Daniel Defoe—Robinson Crusoe
Henry Fielding—Joseph Andrews
Jonathan Swift—Gulliver’s Travels
Samuel Johnson-- Rasselas

Course Code 1176 Marks: 100 Credits: 4 Class Hours: 60

Course Title: Restoration and Eighteenth Century Poetry and Drama

John.Dryden—Mac Flecknoe
William Congreve—The Way of the World
Alexander Pope—The Rape of the Lock
Thomas Gray—Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard
Oliver Goldsmith—She Stoops to Conquer

Course Code 1177 Marks: 100 Credits: 4 Class Hours: 60

Course Title: Victorian Poetry

A.Tennyson—Locksley Hall, Ulysses, The Lotos Eaters,

R.Browning—A Grammarian’s Funeral, Andrea del Sarto, Fra Lippo Lippi
Mathew Arnold—Thyrsis, Dover Beach, The Scholar Gypsy
Christiana Rossetti—Goblin Market, An Apple Gathering
Gerald Manley Hopkins—The Windhover, Felix Randal, Spring and Fall, Pied Beauty.

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 Course Code 1178 Marks: 100 Credits: 4 Class Hours: 60
Course Title: Introduction to Linguistics

The course introduces students to fundamentals of Linguistics. It covers:

a) Definition and characteristics of language,
b) Basic concepts in Linguistics: Langue and Parole, Syntagmatic and
Paradigmatic perspectives of language, Competence and performance
c) Consonant and vowel sounds in English, Basic Rules of elision and assimilation,
Stress and intonation
d) Morphology: Free and Bound Morphemes, Word formation rules
e) Syntax: Sentence Construction Rules, Deep and Surface Structure
f) Psycholinguistics: Child language development; theories of second language
acquisition
g) Sociolinguistics: Language varieties, Language and society, Language and culture;
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Recommended Reading:
Text Books:
Fromkin V. and R. Rodman. 1995. An Introduction to Language. New York, Holt, Rinehart
and Winston.
Roach, Peter. 2000. English Phonetics and Phonology. Cambridge University Press.
John Lyons. 1981. Language and Linguistics An Introduction. Cambridge: C.U.P.
O’Grady, William et al. 1987 Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction
Hudson, R.H. 1996. Sociolinguistics. Cambridge University Press

Reference Books:
R.H. Robins. 1964. General Linguistics An Introductory Survey. New York: Longman
David Crystal. 1985. Linguistics. Penguin Books.
Bolinger. D. Aspects of Language.
Ferdinand De Saussure. 1959. Course in General Linguistics. New York: Philosophical
Library. (Chapters 1,2,3 and 4)
Noam Chomsky. 1957. Syntactic Structures. S. Gravenhage: Mouton and Co.
Noam Chomsky. 1965. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Mouton and C.
M.A.K. Halliday. 1978. Explorations into the Functions of Language.

Course Code 1179 Marks: 100 Credits: 4 Class Hours: 60

Course Title: Professional English

This course will enable students to explore the nature of writing in domains of professional
communication. It will introduce students to a range a professional text types, namely
informational, persuasive and argumentative discourse commonly found in professional and
business contexts. It will include:
Business letters, Official notice, Notes and memos,Office order, Office circular
Press Release, Project Proposal, Tenders/Quotations, E-mail messages, Project Reports
The course will also include an oral component and cover such areas as conducting and
participating in meeting, interviewing and taking job interviews, presenting and participating
in seminars, symposiums, workshops and the like.

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Recommended Reading:
Text Books:
Ashley, A. Oxford Handbook of Commercial Correspondence. New Delhi: Oxford
University Press.
Raman, Menaskhi and Sangeeta Sharma. 2004. Technical Communication. New Delhi:
Oxford University Press.
Lennon, John M. 1982. Technical Writing. Little Brown and Company.

Reference Books:
Barnes, Henry A.1982. The Language of Bureaucracy. In Boltz, Carol J and Seyler, D.U(eds.)

Language and Power. New York: Random House.

Gibson, Walker. 1982. Sweet Talk: The Rhetoric of Advertising. In Boltz, Carol J and Seyler,

D.U(eds.) 1982. Language and Power. New York: Random House.

Jeely, John . 2002. The Oxford Guide to Writing and Speaking. OUP.
Pal, Rajendra and J. S. Korla Halls. 2002. Essentials of Business Communication. New Delhi:
Sultan Chand and Sons.
Stephens, Mary. 2000. Practise Advanced Writing. Longman.
Viva Voce (25)
Tutorial (25)

Course Code 1180 Marks: 100 Credits: 4 Class Hours: 60

Course Title: Approaches and Methods of Language Teaching